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Sunday, 27 November 2011




Is the Olympics torch coming near your house?

MOST people will be within ten miles of the Olympic torch as it makes its way to the Olympic Stadium next year.

More than 1,000 communities will have torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame through their streets. The announcement this week of the villages, towns and cities on the route shows that the torch will be within an hour of nearly everybody’s homes.

Its journey will begin on 19 May at Land’s End. Then, 8,000 miles and 70 days later, it will arrive at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July for the lighting of the cauldron at the opening ceremony, signifying the official start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A location for each day is shown on our map.

You can log on now to the website below for an interactive map and, by putting in your postcode, find out exactly when and where the Olympic torch will be carried near you.

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Is the Olympic torch coming near your house? Vote on our poll at www.firstnews.co.uk/polls to tell us what YOU think!

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  • frules (Age 13) wrote on Thursday, 10 November 2011 @ 15:52

    Yay It's going near me!!!Hopefully I will go down and see it :)

  • smokeyice (Age 12) wrote on Thursday, 10 November 2011 @ 16:55

    ealing yay

  • sambarose2 (Age 11) wrote on Thursday, 10 November 2011 @ 17:22

    It's coming near me!!!! I will (hopefully) go and see it! =)

  • AquaPuppy (Age 11) wrote on Thursday, 10 November 2011 @ 18:49

    Yay! It's going through Haringey!

  • imomilner (Age 11) wrote on Thursday, 10 November 2011 @ 21:22

    oh well :(

  • kicky105 (Age 12) wrote on Thursday, 10 November 2011 @ 21:40

    I am definitely going to see it!

  • puppygirl9 (Age 11) wrote on Friday, 11 November 2011 @ 08:52

    its nowhere near me im in Telford but my grandma lives in Ellesmere port near to chester so I might see it there

  • theminx (Age 9) wrote on Saturday, 12 November 2011 @ 11:04

    I'm in huddersfield so marsh is the closest for me

  • summer99 (Age 13) wrote on Saturday, 12 November 2011 @ 16:55

    it's stopping in Plymouth but it doesnt say LOL i cant wait hoopefully the wonderful Tom Daley will carry it!!!! woop woop!!!

  • charan (Age 13) wrote on Sunday, 13 November 2011 @ 11:28

    Yes!! I'm gonna go see it!!

  • millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Sunday, 13 November 2011 @ 18:02

    yaay waltham forestt

  • shoeless27 (Age 10) wrote on Sunday, 13 November 2011 @ 18:42

    Thank you for posting this photo because I had to do a school project and draw the british isles, and this REALLY REALLY helped! ;) :):):):):):););););););)

  • badgirl (Age 11) wrote on Monday, 14 November 2011 @ 17:44

    Its coming next to my house!

  • nps99 (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 @ 16:44

    oooh near me!

  • Crystal- (Age 13) wrote on Thursday, 17 November 2011 @ 17:40

    london?

  • emha (Age 8) wrote on Thursday, 17 November 2011 @ 19:51

    I hope I can go to see It :)

  • pipapip (Age 12) wrote on Sunday, 20 November 2011 @ 15:36

    it goes past my best friends house!!!!! sadly we are on a residential trip when it comes by :'-(

  • shoeless27 (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 24 November 2011 @ 17:00

    London is at the end. It is not even mentioned ;(;(;(;(;(

  • Baple1999 (Age 13) wrote on Thursday, 24 November 2011 @ 19:46

    OHHHH!!!!!!! IT'S NOWHERE NEAR ME!!!

  • sweetcandy (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 @ 16:53

    Yup! Nottingham - Number 41! And I know where it's going (To the icerink) so I will hopefully go and see it!

  • looby99 (Age 12) wrote on Sunday, 4 December 2011 @ 15:52

    no :(